Incredible lecture given to the freshmen class at Westpoint. Talks about the need for introspection and solitude to be a good leader.
Solitude and Leadership
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Quotes
- "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stewart Mill
- "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." - Teddy Roosevelt
- The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill
- "What is best in life? To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women." - Conan the Barbarian
Books to read
- The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World - Peter Schwartz
- Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers - Richard E. Neustadt
- The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia - Peter Hopkirk
- Acts of War: Behavior of Men in Battle - Richard Holmes
- On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society - Dave Grossman
- Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power - Victor Hanson
- The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II - Iris Chang
- Path Between The Seas : The Creation of the Panama Canal - David McCullough
- The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge - David McCullough
- The Reconstruction Of Patriotism: Education For Civic Consciousness - Morris Janowitz
- The Professional Soldier: A Social and Political Portrait - Morris Janowitz
- Once An Eagle - Anton Myrer
- AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service -- and How It Hurts Our Country - Kathy Roth-douquet & Frank Schaeffer
- The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal - Desmond Morris
- Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World - Benjamin Barber
- Bear Went over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan - Lester W. Grau
- The Arab Mind - Raphael Patai & Norvell B. De Atkine
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph - T.E. Lawrence
- Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life - Spencer Johnson & Kenneth Blanchard
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell
Movies to watch
- Twelve O'Clock High - 1949
- The Lost Battalion - 2001
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